I did actually exert myself to think for a while about how difficult it must be to avoid them in the multifannish lj world, though. I mean, I was in DS for four years starting in 2000, and nobody said word one about spoilers, when I'm sure some of my Japanese friends are seeing the full set of RayK episodes -- or possibly any of them -- for the first time, now. They really would have had to stay completely out of the DS fandom arena to avoid them during the mailing list years. Which meant that the people who were on lists were self-selecting as "willingly spoiled."

So after thinking about it, cuts don't seem so unreasonable.

It doesn't help that I'm a spoiler whore myself, or that a good chunk of my job involves searching out other people's reviews for things I've never seen, heard, or read. Perhaps it gives me slanted notions?